HARRY HUGHES, Governor                               1099

Approved April 2, 1982.

CHAPTER 26

(House Bill 1921)

AN ACT concerning

School Vehicles - Overtaking

FOR the purpose of altering a certain exception relating to
the meeting or overtaking of school vehicles; and
making this Act an emergency measure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation

Section 21-706

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1977 Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article - Transportation

21-706.

(a)  If a school vehicle is stopping or has stopped on
a roadway and is operating the alternately flashing warning
lights specified in § 22-228 of this article, the driver of
any other vehicle meeting or overtaking the school vehicle:

(1)  Shall stop 10 feet from the rear of the
school vehicle, if approaching the school vehicle from its
rear, or 10 feet from the front of the school vehicle, if
approaching the school vehicle from its front; and

(2)  May not proceed until the school vehicle
resumes motion or the alternately flashing warning lights
are deactivated.

(b)  This section does not apply to the driver of a
vehicle:

(1)  In Baltimore City;

(2)  In [a municipal corporation] AN INCORPORATED
CITY OR TOWN that, according to the most recent federal
decennial census, has a population of more than 100,000
people; or